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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkeys don't persist
« on: October 21, 2015, 06:01 PM »
and/or the location of the .ini files should be user configurable (preferably and)
you can customize this by editing the ConfigDir.ini file in the program directory.
What will happen if/when I install a new version or have to reinstall ?



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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkeys don't persist
« on: October 21, 2015, 05:21 PM »
The other thing I change is default save location (to desktop) sometimes I lose that, it reverts to ...\Documents\DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor\Screenshots, not sure of that's coincident with losing hotkeys -

hmm it sounds like it may be losing your settings file completely and reverting to defaults.. that's odd.

did you "install" SC by copying it from one machine to another?
Good try mate - of course I didn't :rofl: 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkeys don't persist
« on: October 21, 2015, 05:19 PM »
I presume this setting wont affect hotkeys, but maybe check it in case (i.e. ensure it's *not* ticked)
@tomos - thanks - it's not ticked and it's not a network install - but the tooltip warning is possibly germane

My %USERPROFILE%\Documents folder is relocated to D:\Documents.  I have that drive configured to spin down when its been idle for 3 minutes (heat, energy saver) - so I suspect the 'save ini file on exit' function in SC is timing out waiting for the drive to spin up, which is the sort of thing that can happen on networks.

I did look for a setting to relocate the preferences.  IMO the preferences belong in %APPDATA%, if they were there they'd be on my %SYSTEMDRIVE% which is an SSD.

So - I suggest the preferences be saved when they're Accepted and/or the location of the .ini files should be user configurable (preferably and)

Meantime, I'll try to exit SC manually before shut down and see what happens.

RP

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkeys don't persist
« on: October 21, 2015, 04:57 PM »
...To check if this is the case, change your hotkeys and then manually exit and restart SC and check the settings.
Yep that's fine

But why wait until shutdown to save them, why aren't they saved when Accept is clicked. 

Shutdown is a somewhat random process, essentially Windows broadcasts a message to tell all applications to terminate now, knowing what happens in that melee is like knowing what happens in a rugby scrum.  I probably run more tray apps than most folks

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What are the circumstances in which SC creates a fresh ScreenshotCaptor.ini file.  The other thing I change is default save location (to desktop) sometimes I lose that, it reverts to ...\Documents\DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor\Screenshots, not sure of that's coincident with losing hotkeys - maybe/probably.

BTW it's OK this morning, but tomorrow its likely it'll be not OK.  I'll save the ini file as it is now and when it goes awry I'll do a compare, post here etc.  But I really do think you should consider saving the settings into the ini file when the Accept key is clicked. Or provide a Save Settings button, or right context menu item at least.


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Screenshot Captor / Hotkeys don't persist
« on: October 21, 2015, 02:11 AM »
Windows 10 Upgrade; Screen Shot Captor v4.13.0 BETA - Sep 12, 2015

This has been happening to me for a very long time, on Windows 7 and Windows 10 upgrade and many previous versions of SC.   

Today I had to do about 10 restarts and take screen shots with context menus - sometimes the hot key would persist, other times it wouldn't.  On one occasion the choices offered were bizarre, sorry I can't recall what they were - I was able to resolve that by logging off and on

Say I set the hot keys like this

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Tomorrow or maybe the next day (after a shut down, some zzzz's and start up) they will all be blank

Yes I do click the Accept the button

Where are the settings stored ?

Oh, I haven't reported it before, because I only use SC when I cant do something with Windows Capture tool, such as delayed captures or transients like context menu's.  But today it was 'driving me nuts' - I'm normally a fault tolerant user :lol:

RP

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